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... cats and kittens are every where! I had to meet my tour at 11am, and we started our day at the prehistoric settlement of Akrotiri in Thira. The excavation started in 1967 by the Archaeological society of Athens and is still in progress.They are slowly removing the large deposits of volcanic material covering the prehistoric city and finding new artifacts everyday. Over thirty buildings have been located in the ...

... that doesn't happen everyday. I jumped in to the "warm springs" (definitely not HOT springs - especially not the 200m swim to get there in the ocean), whilst Steph laughed at my obscenities - Colin Firth in a French lake style. Despite all these amazing attractions and great food along the way - the relaxed town of Oia was a personal favourite. We wondered the streets there twice, once for sunset (beautiful but effing cold once the sun set) and once on our last day - meeting up ...

... ther was an exsosion in the power plant for the island. This caused great fun. Because then you have now water aswell. The power continued to come on about every 6 hours for about an hour and then go out again. Some times in that period you got water sometimes not. Thr good thing about greece especialy the islands is that igs cheep. Even the ...

... Did our best! The guy serving us, Apostolis, was very helpful in recommending somewhere to stay in Folegandros , our next island hop, somewhere he stayed as the first guest and on his honeymoon twenty odd years ago ( he has a 19 yr old daughter too)… somehow we offered to give a business card and photo to his friend Lia when we got there! ...

... day we were back on the open road heading south again to Athens to stay one more night in our city hostel.

We woke up early the next morning and were happy to leave the graffiti-ridden city of Athens and head out in to the wide open ocean via ferry. The Greek Isles await us!!! My whole life I’ve been waiting to travel by ferry through the numerous islands (you know, there are over 227 inhabited Greek Isles?). ...